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Joel Smith

Bio:Joel Smith is the media editor for The Inlander. In that position, he manages and directs Inlander.com and edits all copy for the website, the newspaper and all other special publications. A former staff writer, he has reported on local and state politics, the environment, urban development and culture, Spokane's...

Joel Smith is the media editor for The Inlander. In that position, he manages and directs Inlander.com and edits all copy for the website, the newspaper and all other special publications. A former staff writer, he has reported on local and state politics, the environment, urban development and culture, Spokane's cycling scene and the art of couch surfing, among other things.

New bones from your desktop printer? It sounds like sci-fi, but it's happening at Washington State University

By Joel Smith

Let’s say you took a dive at your local roller rink and wound up in the hospital with a fractured vertebra. You’re in big trouble — these things don’t exactly heal themselves. Or at least they didn’t used to.

Inside The Inlander’s Best of the Inland Northwest soiree last week.

The newest edition of Angry Birds is here. Plus, it's the beginning of the cycling season!

By Joel Smith

If you’ve never cruised the thousands of free radio stations available through iTunes, you should ” especially the hundreds of foreign-language stations. Plopping yourself suddenly into Spain or Senegal or India is a bizarre 21stcentury delight.

A Finnish director makes a French film about man's search for meaning

By Joel Smith

The more pity Marcel shows toward the boy, the more the townspeople begin to soften toward Marcel. The baker conceals the boy in her shop. The greengrocer sends Marcel home with extra supplies. A local celebrity volunteers to put on a benefit concert for the kid.

We asked three local bartenders to help you transition into the long, cold nights ahead. Here are their prescriptions.

By Joel Smith

down the lemondrop. Back away from the mojito. Summer may have lingered a little longer than expected in the Inland Northwest, but the times finally appear to be changing. Meaning that it’s time to start looking at the brown drinks — the strong, spicy, warming elixirs that will keep you keeping on in harsh weather.

Feist is back. Plus, yes, it's still baseball season.

By Joel Smith

darling was suddenly a mainstream success. But the years of touring and promotion that followed took a toll. “I was playing to bigger audiences than I had ever fathomed, and I had gone a little deaf, I mean emotionally deaf,” she told The New York Times.

Meet your new favorite Spokane sports team.

By Joel Smith

Behind the baseball field, four young guys in T-shirts and running shoes do drills in the green grass. They take turns hitting pop flies while the others in the field crane their necks upward, swaying as they peer up into the blue sky and then euro;” slap.

Five outdoor dining spots where you can pretend you’re in Paris.

By Joel Smith

While restaurateurs here focus their patio diners’ attention inward — assembling chairs around large, heavy tables — in Paris, they commonly turn the chairs outward, toward the hustle and life of the street. (It’s hard to find a more absorbing restaurant “interior” anywhere.